Recent Police News:
Police strike ends in Brazil's 3rd-largest city - Sun, 12 Feb 2012
A police strike in a northeastern Brazilian state has ended, though a similar action in Rio de Janeiro continued but was having little effect Sunday just days before Carnival celebrations draw some 800,000 tourists to the city.
Police in Brazil's Bahia end strike before carnival - Sat, 11 Feb 2012
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police in Brazil's Bahia state voted on Saturday to end a strike that unleashed a crime wave claiming more than 150 lives, raising hopes for peaceful carnival celebrations but leaving concerns about security ahead of the 2014 World Cup. The last holdouts among Bahia's military police agreed to give up their walkout, state spokesman Robinson Almeida told Reuters, after 11 ...
British police arrest five at Murdoch's Sun newspaper - Sat, 11 Feb 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - British police threw Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corporation into fresh turmoil on Saturday by arresting five senior staff at the top-selling daily The Sun in a probe into journalists paying police for tip-offs. The move is part of a wider investigation into illegal news gathering practices that has rocked Britain's political, media and police establishments and last ...
Rio calm in second day of police strike - Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Few police officers have adhered to a strike just days before this city's world-famous Carnival kicks off, official said Saturday.
Rio calm in 2nd day of police strike - Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Few police officers have adhered to a strike just days before this city's world-famous Carnival kicks off, official said Saturday.
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